Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

7490 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/04/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"
Salvatore Mereu • Director of BentuVENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to...  
09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
“In some ways, my film is like a nature documentary: you show how little people live, how the world affects them and how they affect the world”
Rasmus Merivoo • Director of KrattWe talked to the Estonian director about his film, which is really for the whole family, even though...  
10/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021
"Shattering the stereotypical image of the butch female cop in a leather jacket"
Frédéric  Mermoud  • DirectorAfter several acclaimed shorts, Swiss-born, French-based director Frédéric Mermoud has made an impressive...  
14/10/2010
"I neither hate nor sympathise with the characters"
Mehmet Can Mertoglu • DirectorCANNES 2016: Young Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoglu talks about his debut feature, Albüm, which was...  
13/05/2016
“My movies don’t just function on an intellectual level”
Lorenz Merz • Director of Soul of a BeastThe young Swiss director talks to us about his second feature, which is competing in the Locarno Film...  
06/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition
"I wanted the actors and their characters to have enough space to explore their own desires"
Valentin Merz • Director of De noche los gatos son pardosWith his debut feature, the Swiss filmmaker brings us into a mysterious world of desire, revolt and lightness  
15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition
“I’m rural and psychedelic”
Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco BarnsIn her first fiction feature, the filmmaker recreates her childhood and adolescence in southern Spain,...  
22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | New Directors
“I wanted to show the vulnerability of the teenagers in such harsh conditions”
Simón Mesa Soto  • DirectorCANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Simón Mesa Soto, who directed the short film Leidi, winner of the...  
30/05/2014
"My film is built on the power of suggestion and memory"
Piero Messina  • DirectorVENICE 2015: The debut film of Italian director Piero Messina, The Wait, is in competition at the Venice...  
07/09/2015
“Together, Gael and Renate were like the wind coming in and blowing things around”
Piero Messina • Director of Another EndBERLINALE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about some of the stages involved in producing his...  
19/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition
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Mártą Mészáros • Director
Kythera disembarks on Dutch soil
Péter Mészáros • Director29/01/2007
“My decision to move in a more fictional direction was primarily a moral one”
Ilian Metev • DirectorLOCARNO 2017: Bulgaria's Ilian Metev talks about a drastic move in his career: switching from documentary...  
14/08/2017 | Lecce 2018
Grand Prix SIC - Cannes 2010
Janus Metz, director of ArmadilloInterview with the director of the film awarded with the Grand Prize (SIC) in Cannes.  
“I am not saying it will be a humorous film, but we do need some lightness in a deep, sad story”
Pieter-Jan de Pue and Vincent Metzinger  • Director and producer of Four BrothersCineuropa talked to Pieter-Jan de Pue and Vincent Metzinger after they accepted the Eurimages...  
29/03/2019 | CPH:DOX 2019 | CPH:DOX Industry
“A producer must believe in the project when nobody else does”
Vincent Metzinger • Producer, Naoko FilmsInterview with Vincent Metzinger, producer for Belgian company Naoko Films and selected for the 2020...  
02/03/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

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